Technical assistance provided by the United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime related to counter-terrorism
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effective measures for criminal justice responses addressing the prevention of
terrorism in compliance with all their obligations under international law, in particular
human rights, refugee and humanitarian law;
12. Calls upon the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to further
enhance technical assistance, upon request, for building the capacity of Member
States to become party to and implement the international conventions and protocols
related to counter-terrorism, including through targeted programmes and the training
of relevant criminal justice and law enforcement officials, upon request, to develop
their capacity to effectively respond to, prevent, investigate and prosecute terrorist
acts and their financing, the development of and participation in relevant initiatives
and the development of technical tools and publications, within its mandate and in
close consultation with Member States;
13. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, within its
mandate and in collaboration with, when appropriate, relevant United Nations Global
Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact entities, to continue to provide assistance
to requesting Member States in addressing the threat of foreign terr orist fighters,
including returning and relocating foreign terrorist fighters, through its capacity building activities, with regard to enhancing their cooperation, developing relevant
measures and appropriate criminal justice responses, preventing the fin ancing,
mobilization, travel, recruitment, training, organization and radicalization of foreign
terrorist fighters, ensuring that any person who participates in the financing, planning,
preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or in supporting terrori st acts is brought
to justice and developing and implementing appropriate criminal justice responses, in
compliance with relevant obligations under international and domestic law;
14. Calls upon the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to enhance its
coordination with the Office of Counter-Terrorism and other United Nations Global
Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact entities with the aim of delivering to
Member States, upon request, as well as on the basis of the mutual evaluation reports
of Member States done in the framework of combating money-laundering and the
financing of terrorism, integrated technical assistance on counter-terrorist financing
measures, including assistance that will improve the capacity of Member States to
comply with their international obligations to prevent and combat the financing of
terrorism;
15. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue
providing technical assistance to Member States, upon request and as appropriate, to
assess their terrorist financing risks and to identify the financial activities, financial
services and economic sectors most vulnerable to terrorist financing risks, in line with
relevant international standards on countering money-laundering and the financing of
terrorism, and welcomes the guidance issued by the United Nations, including the
Guidance Manual for Member States on Terrorist Financing Risk Assessments
published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;
16. Encourages Member States to further identify, analyse and counter any
potential, existing and in some cases growing links between transnational organized
crime, illicit drug-related activities, money-laundering and the financing of terrorism,
in order to enhance criminal justice responses to those crimes, re cognizing that
terrorists could benefit from transnational organized crime as a source of financing or
logistical support and that the nature and scope of the linkages between terrorism and
transnational organized crime vary by context, and calls upon the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime, within its mandate, to support, upon request, the efforts
of Member States in that regard;
17. Calls upon Member States to strengthen efforts to improve the security
and resilience of critical infrastructure and the protection of particularly vulnerable
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